The Quest for Early Church Historiography

From Ferdinand C. Baur to Bart D. Ehrman and Beyond

Jeremiah Mutie

• Editorial: Wipf and Stock
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781666711462
• Categoría: Geschichte
• Categoría: Historiographie

The Quest for Early Church Historiography explores how early church historiography underwent a significant shift beginning with the thought of Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), a shift that eventually culminated in the current extreme historiographies of such scholars as Bart D. Ehrman (1955-). Through the tracing of this historiographical trajectory, this work argues that, rather than seeing these current historiographies as having suddenly appeared in the scholarly scene, a better approach is to see them as the fruit of this long trajectory. Of course, as the work has sought to demonstrate, this trajectory is itself full of turns and twists. But the careful reader will, hopefully, be able to see the intrinsic connections that are demonstrably evident.

Índice

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Terminology
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Competing Early Church Historiographies
• Chapter 2: Christian Ferdinand Baur and His Contemporaries
• Chapter 3: Adolf Von Harnack and His Posterity
• Chapter 4: Walter Bauer and the “Priority of Heresy” Historiography
• Chapter 5: The Historiography of Bart Ehrman and His Contemporaries
• Chapter 6: Determination of Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity
• Conclusion: Toward an Early Church Historiography
• Bibliography